MP Ghassan Tueni said Tuesday he was hopeful that the policy statement would be finalized soon, but wondered why Hizbullah was so stuck to its weapons when it claims it doesn”t want to use them.
"We should find a true concept of the resistance," Tueni told reporters after meeting Speaker Nabih Berri at his Ain al-Tineh residence.
"We want entire Lebanon to become a resistance state and a resistance society just like the Israeli society," Tueni said.
"They (Hizbullah) don”t want to wage a civil war, they want to keep their arms thinking that they could possibly need them domestically," he added.
Tueni said Hizbullah has set a precedent with the use of arms against fellow countrymen, a reference to Hizbullah”s takeover of west Beirut last May.
"For this reason, caution should be observed," he said, asking: "If they don”t want to use weapons, then why do they want to preserve this right?"